1.  To look upon God with eyes of flesh is impossible:  for the incorporeal cannot be subject to bodily sight:  and the Only begotten Son of God Himself hath testified, saying, No man hath seen God at any time John i. 18..  For if according to that which is written in Ezekiel any one should understand that Ezekiel saw Him, yet what saith the Scripture?  He saw the likeness of the glory of the Lord Ezekiel i. 28.; not the Lord Himself, but the likeness of His glory, not the glory itself, as it really is.  And when he saw merely the likeness of the glory, and not the glory itself, he fell to the earth from fear.  Now if the sight of the likeness of the glory brought fear and distress upon the prophets, any one who should attempt to behold God Himself would to a certainty lose his life, according to the saying, No man shall see My face and live Exod. xxxiii. 20..  For this cause God of His great loving-kindness spread out the heaven as a veil of His proper Godhead, that we should not perish.  The word is not mine, but the Prophet’s.  If Thou shalt rend the heavens, trembling will take hold of the mountains at sight of Thee, and they will flow down Is. lxiv. 1, Septuagint.  R.V. Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down..  And why dost thou wonder that Ezekiel fell down on seeing the likeness of the glory? when Daniel at the sight of Gabriel, though but a servant of God, straightway shuddered and fell on his face, and, prophet as he was, dared not answer him, until the Angel transformed himself into the likeness of a son of man Dan. x. 9, 16, 18..  Now if the appearing of Gabriel wrought trembling in the Prophets, had God Himself been seen as He is, would not all have perished?